Cities in the ancient world relied on private generosity to provide many basic amenities, as well as expecting leading citizens to pay for 'bread and circuses' - free food and public entertainment. This collection of essays by leading scholars from the UK and USA explores the important phenomenon of benefaction and public patronage in Roman Italy.... more...

There are hundreds of ways to lead a more environmentally friendly, socially conscious, and liberally minded life?ways that can even be enjoyable. What readers will find in this friendly inclusive book are simple steps, lifestyle adjustments, and ideas that entertain: Watching MSNBC instead of Fox News Powering a laptop with a solar?power?generating... more...

Richard Falk once again captures our attention with a nuanced analysis of what we need to do - at the personal level as well as state actions - to refocus our pursuit of human rights in a post-9/11 world. From democratic global governance, to the costs of the Iraq War, the preeminent role of the United States in the world order to the role of individual... more...

This book presents current research in Political Economy, including a case study-based institutional analysis; discussion of the influence of activists on political decisions and new techniques for election analysis using game theory and empirical methods. more...

Advancing the Human Right to Health discusses the global response to achieving the human right to health. Country-specific case studies and thematic chapters are used to provide context and assess the challenge to translating the right to health into action. more...

The Aesthetics of Free Speech: Rethinking the Public Sphere is one of the first books to theoretically explore the relationship between free speech and the public sphere. By drawing upon Marxist theory the author, John Michael Roberts, demonstrates how liberal theorists frequently construct an abstract aesthetic of 'rational', 'cultivated' and 'competent'... more...

Information and communication technologies (ICTs) have been a remarkable success in Africa. In just 10 yearsdating from the end of the 1990smobile network coverage rose from 16 percent to 90 percent of the urban population and by 2009 nearly half of Africas rural population was also living within range of a mobile network. Large-scale... more...